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| A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured yesterday when nearly two tonnes of glass fell on him in a factory.A WorkSafe spokesman said the boy, whose parents work at the Melbourne factory, was walking across the shop floor when 11 sheets of glass, measuring 2.1m x 3.3m, fell on him from a trolley.
| Analysts at Lehman Brothers maintain their "overweight" rating on Applied Films. The target price has been raised from $18 to $24.
| WRAP has announced positive results for a research study into another possible alternative market for waste glass. The University of Sheffield "ConGlassCrete" study concluded that waste container, plate, automotive and fluorescent tube glass could be used to make concrete.
| Binswanger Glass is closing the Salisbury store that operated as Pritchard Glass for years on Main Street in Salisbury. The operation is moving to Charlotte at year's end.
| Asahi India Glass on Friday announced the setting up of its single largest integrated glass plant at Roorkee in Uttaranchal with an estimated investment of Rs 600 crore (Rs 6 billion).
| Three men, one armed with a long rifle or shotgun, failed in their attempt to rob a Fort Lauderdale bank Wednesday morning, police said.The hooded men rushed into the Wachovia branch in the 1700 block of west Commercial Boulevard about 10 a.m. and ordered everyone to the ground, Sgt.
| ASAHI GLASS CO. expects to book a record operating profit of 135 billion yen (US$1.3 billion) for the year ending Dec. 31.
| Although new car and truck sales rose more than 2 percent during the first 10 months of 2004, many of the companies that supply parts to the big automakers have little to celebrate -- their profits are shrinking as raw materials costs rise and production falls at General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.Already, Delphi Corp. and Visteon Corp., the nation's two largest suppliers with combined sales of $45.7 billion in 2003, have warned of lower-than-anticipated earnings this year because of higher materials expenses, particularly for steel, and because top U.S. automakers GM and Ford plan to turn out fewer vehicles.No. 2 Visteon, the former Ford division that counts on the automaker for most of its business, said Monday it had offered buyouts to its 8,300 U.S. salaried workers as a way to trim costs and become more competitive.
| Asahi India Glass Ltd has posted 1.54 per cent decline in net profit to Rs 19.06 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2004 as compared to Rs 19.36 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2003.
| DuPont Chairman and CEO Chad Holliday has been appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush to serve on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
| Southwall Technologies reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2002. Revenues for the second quarter of 2002 were $19.7 million, a decrease of $2.2 million, or 10 percent, from the $21.9 million achieved in the second quarter of 2001, Sequentially revenues increased 2 percent from $19.3 million in the first quarter of 2002.
| Oscar Boronat has been appointed managing director of Primary Products Europe, succeeding Stuart Chambers.Oscar is currently chief executive, Building Products, South America, and country manager, Brazil.
| Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH) today announced that its Board of Directors voted to increase the company's quarterly dividend.
| The DuPont Business Conduct Guide now is available online at DuPont.com. The booklet can be found by going web page or by clicking on the tab marked "Social Commitment" and then going to "Business Conduct Guide." First published in 1989, the DuPont Business Conduct Guide provides information to guide employees so that their business conduct is consistent with the company's ethical standards; as well as information to improve the understanding of those standards among DuPont customers, suppliers and others.
| As reported yesterday, DuPont has announced it now estimates second quarter underlying earnings per share to be between USD 0.64 and USD 0.67.
| Pierre Brondeau, Vice President and head of the Electronic Materials Business Group, today said his business continues to see improved demand for advanced technologies used to make semiconductors and semiconductor packaging.
| DuPont Chairman and CEO Chad Holliday discussed various topics in a recent issue of Chemical Market Reporter (CMR). Highlights of Chad's comments are being featured in Network News.
| After last summer's explosion at ATOFINA Chemicals Inc., Downriver fire departments are beefing up training in industrial fires and upgrading local emergency warning systems.
| Following exceptionally strong production in this year's first quarter that was driven in part by very good weather conditions, nationwide housing starts retreated 5.4 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.56 million units, according to the Commerce Department.
| French glass and construction materials firm Saint-Gobain foresees no sign of any vigorous economic rebound before the end of 2002 and confirmed its outlook for earnings growth of up to 4 percent.